have been caught up with doing assignments and preparing for assignments last and this week.
last week i had an assignment due for the class Nutrients Role and Functions. it appeared to be a short answer style set questions that could have been completed in a day. there was only about 10 questions too. but sadly, this was not the case. each question had like part a, b, c, d, e, f, g.... and in the end when it took me about 3 or 4 days to complete it. i had 11 or 12 pages worth of text in the end. so that was basically what i did the whole of last week. and then by the end of the week i was too tired to do anymore typing, heh.
over last weekend i had to prepare for a small group facilitation segment for my communication class. it was a short segment - 10 minutes only, but i spent considerable time preparing for it a what i'm familiar with is presentations but not facilitation. while presentation is all about providing information and delivering that information in a charismatic manner, facilitation is all about engaging participants and getting participants to be actively involved in the session. it was a whole new concept to me... it involves coming up with an activity whereby participants get to interact with one another/with the facilitator.. and it's much about conversing with participants, listening attentively to what they are saying, paraphrasing/clarifying/summarizing, repeat again... and in the process there's also the need to focus on content because it's an informative session after all. feels as if there's so much more to do than good ol' public speaking in that short span of time. when i first started practicing it was quite unnatural... but after practicing few times it was much better and the actual "show time" went quite well. it's really all about practice makes perfect i guess.
that small group facilitation was an "appetizer" this week as it was a non-graded component just to get us warmed up for the "main course" few weeks later where we'll do a small group facilitation again, albeit this time it would be graded. going to get busy again! but i might like it more than the traditional presentations when i do get used to the facilitating style. and it's really nice that the class has all these little hands on activities where we get to use the skills we learned from theories, i think i can grasps those concepts on facilitation much better when you use it. it's like positive/negative feedback. and it's good we get all these practice in before going out to do it in the real world. for this communication class we also need to do a one-hour small group presentation at a primary school. it's getting me nervous. there would be 70+ kids in that group... i have no idea how i'm going to control those kids or even build some rapport with them. school presentation is in less than a month's time and i'm not looking forward to that.
last week i had an assignment due for the class Nutrients Role and Functions. it appeared to be a short answer style set questions that could have been completed in a day. there was only about 10 questions too. but sadly, this was not the case. each question had like part a, b, c, d, e, f, g.... and in the end when it took me about 3 or 4 days to complete it. i had 11 or 12 pages worth of text in the end. so that was basically what i did the whole of last week. and then by the end of the week i was too tired to do anymore typing, heh.
over last weekend i had to prepare for a small group facilitation segment for my communication class. it was a short segment - 10 minutes only, but i spent considerable time preparing for it a what i'm familiar with is presentations but not facilitation. while presentation is all about providing information and delivering that information in a charismatic manner, facilitation is all about engaging participants and getting participants to be actively involved in the session. it was a whole new concept to me... it involves coming up with an activity whereby participants get to interact with one another/with the facilitator.. and it's much about conversing with participants, listening attentively to what they are saying, paraphrasing/clarifying/summarizing, repeat again... and in the process there's also the need to focus on content because it's an informative session after all. feels as if there's so much more to do than good ol' public speaking in that short span of time. when i first started practicing it was quite unnatural... but after practicing few times it was much better and the actual "show time" went quite well. it's really all about practice makes perfect i guess.
that small group facilitation was an "appetizer" this week as it was a non-graded component just to get us warmed up for the "main course" few weeks later where we'll do a small group facilitation again, albeit this time it would be graded. going to get busy again! but i might like it more than the traditional presentations when i do get used to the facilitating style. and it's really nice that the class has all these little hands on activities where we get to use the skills we learned from theories, i think i can grasps those concepts on facilitation much better when you use it. it's like positive/negative feedback. and it's good we get all these practice in before going out to do it in the real world. for this communication class we also need to do a one-hour small group presentation at a primary school. it's getting me nervous. there would be 70+ kids in that group... i have no idea how i'm going to control those kids or even build some rapport with them. school presentation is in less than a month's time and i'm not looking forward to that.
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It's just a small kid classroom talk. You passed your public speaking course.
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